Even if the US converts the 123 agreement into law, no US supplier will look at India until it passes a liability protection law. Since the Congress-led coalition lacks a majority, it cannot pass any legislation without your support. By […]

The 60th anniversary of indepen-dence launched a thousand colum-ns on the achievements and failur-es of the last six decades. Some extolled our democracy and rise as an IT power. Others bemoaned the collapse of governance and appalling lack of basic

The sub-prime problem may not be a big deal in itself. But it\’s a symptom of a bigger problem in the real economy: the bursting of the US housing bubble… The US is not the only market with a housing

Ten years ago, the Asian financial crisis sma-shed markets and economies globally. Today, another financial crisis is brewing in the US mortgage market. Is this a small problem that will soon be resolved? Is it a serious problem that will

Earlier Indian companies cooked their books, kept profits black, and rigged their share prices up. Once foreign investors entered the market, they marked down the price of dodgy companies while paying high prices for companies with good standards. Some Indians

It’s the 10th anniversary of one of the most successful international trade agreements India has signed. But nobody is celebrating it. Indeed, the remarkable fact is that few have even heard of it. This is the Information Technology Agreement (ITA)